Rob reports that the scene is pretty peaceful in the daytime. He’s been there for one week. It had been pretty peaceful most of the time during the day, but coming in this morning, he says „I was approached by a group of teenagers… they started to go through my pockets, and then I’m pinned against the wall. One of them has a blade and starts cutting at my jacket and one of them tries to put something in my mouth – a napkin, or something like that, to keep me quiet.”
Rob had managed to somehow break free. „They didn’t take anything from me.”
He made an escape, finding refuge near the entrance to the camp, with volunteers.
There was no police assistance offered during the attack, but volunteers saw the incident from a distance, before Edwards made it out.
The situation is becoming tenser in the Calais Jungle as time goes by, Edwards says.
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„Heads split open, lips split open” – this is the picture seen every day, Edwards says, as police and migrants clash amid the increasing desperation and much colder weather arriving.
Bitter arguments continue between London and Paris over who gets to bear the migrant burden, amid volunteer organization efforts to work for the immediate good of the people.
Photojournalist Teun Voeten, who has been making a documentary in the ‘Jungle’ and ended up becoming a target of violence himself, says it’s not as black-and-white as it may seem.
“We put it very clearly in the text… that some refugees attacked us and some refugees helped us,” he told RT. “So, basically, all we want to say is there are good refugees here and bad refugees.”
Voeten says he was “annoyed” with uniform coverage of all refugees as helpless victims, and he underlined that there were indeed very decent and highly intelligent people among them.
The big issue Voeten sees is that the strategy for dealing with the refugees is not concrete, and that gradually we are seeing the formation of slum-like immigrant and poor communities with increasingly little rule of law.
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